there are a lot of demands for specific features, e.g. GPU optimised rosetta@home

an idea perhaps is for 3rd party developed rosetta@home apps that sports those features. however those apps would perhaps needs to conform to certain protocols (e.g. so that the databases works) and specific compatibility criteria

however, i'm not too sure how such apps can be accomodated in the boinc & rosetta@home framework

I believe the Rosetta source code is available for anyone to develop as an open source project. There have been a few inquiries about it before. If you have the experience and want to try to improve on what the scientists have managed so far I am sure they will welcome your efforts...


In terms of "GPU optimised features" you are probably not going to get anywhere. The science involved in Rosetta requires a huge amount of memory to process (compared to other BOINC projects) and the current generation of GPUs and APUs don't have enough dedicated memory per core to make it work efficiently.

The code is not open source. But the research done and lessons learned are published. There is a global community of researchers constantly working to improve Rosetta. It is called Rosetta Commons.

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